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BENNETT v. TRANSAMERICAN PRESS

Civ. A. No. 7-2037-C-2.

298 F.Supp. 1013 (1969)

Vernon BENNETT, Plaintiff, v. TRANSAMERICAN PRESS, Overdrive Magazine and Mike Parkhurst, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Iowa, Central Division.

April 1, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Renda, and Lee H. Gaudineer, Jr., Des Moines, Iowa, for plaintiff.

Donald A. Wine, William J. Koehn, and Robert F. Holz, Jr., of Thoma, Schoenthal, Davis, Hockenberg & Wine, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HANSON, District Judge.

This ruling is predicated upon motions for summary judgment filed by the plaintiff and defendants.

This is a civil libel suit arising out of an alleged libelous article which appeared in the June 1967 issue of Overdrive magazine. The article was highly critical of the Iowa Legislature's failure to pass a bill authorizing use of 65-foot double-bottom vehicles on the highways of Iowa. A vigorous controversy...

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